`Compile`

{Name, Reckon, Compile}

To grok the universe as context is to compile language.



See English definition for "compile".




This context contains the mechanism for Name recognition, together with corresponding rules of interpretation and compilation.


Reckoning subsumes naming, and compilation subsumes all reckoning.
Thus, this context is about compilation.




Glossary


compile v.t.

1. To collect together (literary materials) into a treatise or volume.

2. To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to compose out of a materials from other books or documents; ask to compile a history of Rome.

3. Obs. a To write; to compose.

b To put together; to heap up; to construct; build.

c To contain; specif., to contain an account of.

[The above definition is a tolerably good description of the `Compile` Context. The keyword, Compile, however, has a modern definition, which is informed by fifty years of computer language compilers. A computer language compiler is computer code that transforms the text written in a computer language by a human being, into machine ("assembly") instructions for executable code.]



reckoning n.

1. Act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specif.:

a Now Rare. The calculated time of pregnancy.

b The act or fact of accounting, as to God, one's subjects, or one's superiors, for one's conduct; --usually with an implication of immediate or prospective retribution; as, at last, the people called the king to a bitter reckoning.

c Archaic. One's score, as at an inn.

2. Esteem; account; estimation. Obs.

3. Navig. (1) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from "dead reckoning"; also, dead reckoning as opposed to observation. (2) Position of a ship so determined.

--be out of one's reckoning. Naut. To be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; --said of a ship or a captain; hence, to be mistaken in, or misled by, one's calculations or reasoning.

[From Websters1949Unabridged.]




Grok32`

(c) 2004-2007 by
John Van Wie Bergamini.
All rights reserved.


Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1